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Repost from billygfire • 🟦WTF: NO PATIENT “CARE” Two EMS employees in Catskill NY resigned after this surveillance video got out depicting alleged mistreatment of a patient. On Friday evening the Town of Catskill EMS responded to a call. A crew member can be heard directing the patient to, “Come on down.” A person can be heard responding with, “He’s very weak.” That EMS member responds with, “I can’t carry him down the stairs. He’ll have to go on his butt and come down.” What the video does not show is the patient, who resides on the second floor of an apartment building, struggles to make it down the stairs to the ambulance. The struggle continued as the man can be seen attempting to get on the ambulance. As he’s on his knees, with his left arm on the gurney he falls over. The EMT can be heard telling the man to “Get up!” Catskill Town Supervisor Patrick McCulloch said that the town launched an internal investigation into the behavior of those two town employees. It is unclear if...

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